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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Mar 1, 2011
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Tunisian Jewish female body was subjected to... more In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Tunisian Jewish female body was subjected to a dramatic fattening process in preparation for marriage. Immediately following the girl’s engagement, her body became the focus of an intense transformative regimen aimed at achieving the aesthetic ideals of dramatic weight gain and “shining and whitening” of the skin. This paper offers a critical reading of the representation of the female body in postcards and travelogues, in descriptions written by members of the Tunisian Jewish community, and in interviews conducted with group members now living in Israel. The meeting of these voices called for a multidimensional examination of central themes including the ideal female body, its boundaries, and transgressions of those boundaries; mechanisms of control; and the complex relationships between honor and shame and between attraction and repulsion. Hence, the full, rounded bodies of Tunisian Jewish brides were sites of transformation where these multiple meanings came together in complex and at times contrasting ways.
Journal of Folklore Research, 2003
Slavery & Abolition, Apr 1, 1994
Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore 35, 2023
Field Trips with The Society for the Protection of Nature following the Six-Day War: Romanticism ... more Field Trips with The Society for the Protection
of Nature following the Six-Day War:
Romanticism and Disillusionment in Personal Stories In personal stories told by Israelis who still remember the Six-Day War collected as part of a large-scale research project, field trips with ‘The Society for the Protection of Nature’ in the newly conquered territories were central. These personal and biographical stories offer a multi-vocal interpretive framework grounded in the more than fifty years that have passed since the Six Day War. The article presents and analyses stories of guides and hikers along a reflexive axis, examining the complex intersections of the national and the personal. While some narrators depicted the trips as a praxis combining knowledge and romanticism, thus reconstructing the predominant moods of that heady period, many others
were disillusioned, all too aware of the obscuring effect of the political issues connected with the occupation engendered by these trips. mythical transformation and turns from a private person into a mythical entity in which the redemption of Israel is embodied.
June 1967 in Personal Stories of Palestinians and Israelis, 2022
June 1967 in Personal Stories of Palestinians and Israelis
Israel Studies Review, 2021
As in other countries, COVID-19 hit Israel like a bolt of lightning—unexpected, sudden, and power... more As in other countries, COVID-19 hit Israel like a bolt of lightning—unexpected, sudden, and powerful. And, like others, Israel was woefully unprepared for what would follow. The first cases came to light in the last week of February 2020, and by March and April the country was in full-scale crisis mode. In the end, almost one in ten people came down with the virus and more than 8,000 died, more than in any war that Israel has fought.
Northeast African Studies, 2019
The custom of feeding a person sitting at one’s table by placing a handful of sumptuous food in h... more The custom of feeding a person sitting at one’s table by placing a handful of sumptuous food in his or her mouth is a unique Ethiopian commensal practice, known as gursha. The present article aims at eliciting and examining a plethora of associations regarding this convivial, hospitable practice. Based on a wide range of sources, it examines gursha as a dynamic canvas for a wide spectrum of social, historical, and religious associations. The article propose to conceptualize gursha as a “dominant gesture” that draws upon and combines secular and religious sentiments.
June 1967 in Personal Stories of Palestinians and Israelis
העבריות החדשות - נשים ביישוב ובציונות בראי המגדר, 2001
Northeast African Studies, 2019
The custom of feeding a person sitting at one's table by placing a handful of sumptuous food in h... more The custom of feeding a person sitting at one's table by placing a handful of sumptuous food in his or her mouth is a unique Ethiopian commensal practice, known as gursha. The present article aims at eliciting and examining a plethora of associations regarding this convivial, hospitable practice. Based on a wide range of sources, it examines gursha as a dynamic canvas for a wide spectrum of social, historical, and religious associations. The article propose to conceptualize gursha as a "dominant gesture" that draws upon and combines secular and religious sentiments.
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Mar 1, 2011
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Tunisian Jewish female body was subjected to... more In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Tunisian Jewish female body was subjected to a dramatic fattening process in preparation for marriage. Immediately following the girl’s engagement, her body became the focus of an intense transformative regimen aimed at achieving the aesthetic ideals of dramatic weight gain and “shining and whitening” of the skin. This paper offers a critical reading of the representation of the female body in postcards and travelogues, in descriptions written by members of the Tunisian Jewish community, and in interviews conducted with group members now living in Israel. The meeting of these voices called for a multidimensional examination of central themes including the ideal female body, its boundaries, and transgressions of those boundaries; mechanisms of control; and the complex relationships between honor and shame and between attraction and repulsion. Hence, the full, rounded bodies of Tunisian Jewish brides were sites of transformation where these multiple meanings came together in complex and at times contrasting ways.
Journal of Folklore Research, 2003
Slavery & Abolition, Apr 1, 1994
Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore 35, 2023
Field Trips with The Society for the Protection of Nature following the Six-Day War: Romanticism ... more Field Trips with The Society for the Protection
of Nature following the Six-Day War:
Romanticism and Disillusionment in Personal Stories In personal stories told by Israelis who still remember the Six-Day War collected as part of a large-scale research project, field trips with ‘The Society for the Protection of Nature’ in the newly conquered territories were central. These personal and biographical stories offer a multi-vocal interpretive framework grounded in the more than fifty years that have passed since the Six Day War. The article presents and analyses stories of guides and hikers along a reflexive axis, examining the complex intersections of the national and the personal. While some narrators depicted the trips as a praxis combining knowledge and romanticism, thus reconstructing the predominant moods of that heady period, many others
were disillusioned, all too aware of the obscuring effect of the political issues connected with the occupation engendered by these trips. mythical transformation and turns from a private person into a mythical entity in which the redemption of Israel is embodied.
June 1967 in Personal Stories of Palestinians and Israelis, 2022
June 1967 in Personal Stories of Palestinians and Israelis
Israel Studies Review, 2021
As in other countries, COVID-19 hit Israel like a bolt of lightning—unexpected, sudden, and power... more As in other countries, COVID-19 hit Israel like a bolt of lightning—unexpected, sudden, and powerful. And, like others, Israel was woefully unprepared for what would follow. The first cases came to light in the last week of February 2020, and by March and April the country was in full-scale crisis mode. In the end, almost one in ten people came down with the virus and more than 8,000 died, more than in any war that Israel has fought.
Northeast African Studies, 2019
The custom of feeding a person sitting at one’s table by placing a handful of sumptuous food in h... more The custom of feeding a person sitting at one’s table by placing a handful of sumptuous food in his or her mouth is a unique Ethiopian commensal practice, known as gursha. The present article aims at eliciting and examining a plethora of associations regarding this convivial, hospitable practice. Based on a wide range of sources, it examines gursha as a dynamic canvas for a wide spectrum of social, historical, and religious associations. The article propose to conceptualize gursha as a “dominant gesture” that draws upon and combines secular and religious sentiments.
June 1967 in Personal Stories of Palestinians and Israelis
העבריות החדשות - נשים ביישוב ובציונות בראי המגדר, 2001
Northeast African Studies, 2019
The custom of feeding a person sitting at one's table by placing a handful of sumptuous food in h... more The custom of feeding a person sitting at one's table by placing a handful of sumptuous food in his or her mouth is a unique Ethiopian commensal practice, known as gursha. The present article aims at eliciting and examining a plethora of associations regarding this convivial, hospitable practice. Based on a wide range of sources, it examines gursha as a dynamic canvas for a wide spectrum of social, historical, and religious associations. The article propose to conceptualize gursha as a "dominant gesture" that draws upon and combines secular and religious sentiments.
מחקרי ירושלים בפולקלור יהודי, 2023
חוברת זו, המוקדשת כולה לחקר פולקלור ותרבות עממית הקשורים במלחמת ששת הימים, צמחה מפרויקט מחקר רחב ... more חוברת זו, המוקדשת כולה לחקר פולקלור ותרבות עממית הקשורים במלחמת ששת הימים, צמחה מפרויקט מחקר רחב היקף שהתמקד בסיפורים אישיים של ישראלים ופלסטינים על הימים שלפני המלחמה, במהלכה ואחריה. פרויקט זה, בהובלת פרופ' רגינה בנדיקס מאוניברסיטת גטינגן שבגרמניה, פרופ' עזיז חַיידר ממכון טרומן באוניברסיטה העברית ופרופ' הגר סלמון מהאוניברסיטה העברית, נועד לתעד סיפורים אישיים ולעיין באופנים שבהם אנשים זוכרים ומפרשים את אירועי
1967 ומטמיעים אותם בסיפורים אלה. המחקר, שנערך בשנים 2016–2020, הוליד קורפוס המונה יותר מ־300 סיפורים אישיים שסופרו במהלך ראיונות פנים אל פנים שנערכו עם ישראלים ועם פלסטינים. חוברת זו מוקדשת לסיפורי הישראלים ומרחיבה את המבט אל ביטויים עממיים נוספים הקשורים במלחמת ששת הימים.
Meat Matters offers a portrait of the lives of Ethiopian Jews as it is reflected and refracted th... more Meat Matters offers a portrait of the lives of Ethiopian Jews as it is reflected and refracted thought the symbolism of meat. Drawing upon thirty years of fieldwork, this beautifully written and innovatively constructed ethnography tells the story of the Beta Israel, who began immigrating from Ethiopia to Israel in the 1970s. Once in Israel, their world changed in formerly unimaginable ways, such as conversion under Rabbinic restrictions, moving into multistory buildings, different attitudes toward gender and reproduction, and perhaps above all, the newly acquired distinctiveness of the color of their bodies.
In the face of such changes, the Beta Israel held on to a key idiom in their lives: meat. The community continues to be organized into kirchas, groups of friends and family who purchase and raise cows, then butcher and divide the animal's body into small and equal chunks, which are distributed among the kircha through a lottery ritual.
Flowing back and forth between Ethiopia to Israel, Meat Matters follows the many strands of significance surrounding cows and meat, ultimately forming a vibrant web of meaning at the heart of the Beta Israel community today.
Göttingen Studies in Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology, 2022
The clash of June 1967, called by Israelis the Six-Day War and by Palestinians the Naksa (setback... more The clash of June 1967, called by Israelis the Six-Day War and by Palestinians the Naksa (setback), is a critical milestone within the longstanding Israeli- Palestinian conflict. Despite all the scholarly attention ever since, there remain unheard voices and untold stories. It is the personal stories of people in the region that are at the center of this book. How do they remember 1967? How were their lives affected, even changed dramatically as a result of that short war? Listening to their stories as told some 50 years later, an incomplete tapestry of memories and understandings emerge. This book is the product of a re- search collaboration among Palestinian, Israeli and European folklorists, cultural anthropologists and sociologists. The personal stories were collected in the framework of interviews with men and women from all walks of life, on the days before, during and after this dramatic confrontation. The book is comprised of eleven chapters based on a corpus of several hundred conversations, as well as eight representative interviews. Together they afford insight into differential memories and sensations, visions of euphoria and despair, newly revived hopes, pain and disappointment, disillusionment and repentance.
Jewish Communities in the East in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century: Ethiopia, Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East and the Ministry of Education. 215 pp. (in Hebrew), 2007
An edited volume on the Beta Israel in Ethiopia since the 19th century. ספר זה הוא השמיני בסדר... more An edited volume on the Beta Israel in Ethiopia since the 19th century.
ספר זה הוא השמיני בסדרה חדשה על קהילות ישראל בארצות המזרח במאות התשע-עשרה והעשרים. הסדרה פורשת תיאור מקיף של התהליכים ההיסטוריים, החברתיים והתרבותיים שהתרחשו בקהילות בארצות המזרח. בחברה הישראלית גוברת בשנים האחרונות המודעות לחשיבות שימור מורשת קהילות ישראל, והסדרה נועדה לתרום למגמה זו.
יהודי אתיופיה - ביתא ישראל - חיו בצפון אתיופיה ובצפון-מערבה בלמעלה מחמש מאות כפרים קטנים הפזורים על פני טריטוריה רחבת ידיים, בקרב אוכלוסייה נוצרית שלטת ואוכלוסייה מוסלמית. היהודים, אשר דמו בהופעתם ובלשונם לשכניהם הלא-יהודים, היו קבוצת מיעוט מקצועית ודתית, ותפסו את עצמם כשומרי אמונה דתית עתיקת יומין אשר מרבית האתיופים נטשו לטובת הנצרות הצעירה. אמונתם הייתה מושרשת בתנ"ך, שאת מצוותיו קיימו בדקדקנות, כשהם חולמים על ביאת המשיח ועל שיבה לירושלים האגדית.
ספר זה בוחן את מסכת הקשרים המורכבת בינם לבין שכניהם ושליטים בני דתות אחרות, את המפגש עם המיסיון הפרוטסטנטי, ואת היחסים המורכבים שהלכו והתפתחו בינם לבין יהדות העולם ש"גילתה" אותם. לכל אלה היו השפעות מרחיקות לכת על זהותם, על חייהם כיהודים באתיופיה, ועל עלייתם לישראל.
An annotated bibliography of publications on Beta-Israel (Ethiopian Jews)
מחקרי ירושלים בפולקלור יהודי, 2013
Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute. 150 pp. (in Hebrew), 1999
FF Network Newsletter, 2016
Pekka Hakamies Focusing on the main task Kaarina Koski Continuing Bonds in Finnish Bereaveme... more Pekka Hakamies
Focusing on the main task
Kaarina Koski
Continuing Bonds in Finnish Bereavement Narratives
Māra Zirnīte and Ieva Garda-Rozenberga
Oral History Studies in Latvia
News from the Finnish Literature Society
Dani Schrire, Hagar Salamon and Galit Hasan-Rokem
Folklore Studies and Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
ציון – רבעון לחקר תולדות ישראל, 2023
סקירת ספרה של נינה פינטו־אבקסיס, טיטואן: אתר של מגעים בין תרבויות, מכון בן־צבי, ירושלים תשפ"א, 1... more סקירת ספרה של נינה פינטו־אבקסיס, טיטואן: אתר של מגעים בין תרבויות, מכון בן־צבי,
ירושלים תשפ"א, 173 עמ'
ציון, 2022
נינה פינטו־אבקסיס, טיטואן: אתר של מגעים בין תרבויות, מכון בן־צבי, ירושלים תשפ"א, 173עמ'
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1998
Hoffman takes his readers on a fascinating, well-structured journey of the Jewish ritual of circu... more Hoffman takes his readers on a fascinating, well-structured journey of the Jewish ritual of circumcision. Embarking from the biblical model, sojourning in the world of Rabbinic thought and concluding with modern adherence to the practice, the author traces the development of this irreplaceable component of Jewish identity, and even affords us a glimpse into its possible future evolution. Central to the understanding of this rite as sine qua non of Jewish identity is its status as the covenantal event between God and the very body of the believer. The point at which culture and physis converge is fraught with universal, ongoing tensions, dichotomies and transformations. An examination of the attitudes in Judaism towards this rite over history lends an important perspective on the evolution of Jewish identity and its place on the troubled, contradictory spectrum between the universality of the physical and the specificity of Jewish culture.